Anne Conway Quotes

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Children
  • Hope

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Mind
  • You
  • Practice

• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • You

• It's hard to be serious in life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Hard

• The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Success
  • Culture
  • Happiness

• God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Up
  • God
  • Important

• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• That phrase, 'loss of innocence,' has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Culture

• I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Guy

• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • Home
  • Personality

• My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.

  

  Amy Ray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Moments

• I can't re-define music every week!

  

  Arthur Baker
  • Music

• Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

  

  James Nesbitt

• I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Walking

• When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.

  

  Emmanuelle Seigner
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Bad

• Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.

  

  Chris Benz
  • Life
  • Control

• You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move... you can't breathe... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Playing
  • Breathe
  • Quicksand

• To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

  

  Anne Conway
  • Book
  • Useful
  • Winners